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Palm Trees & Snowflakes cover

The second Hawaiian Storm is now available Today’s the day! Palm Trees and Snowflakes, the second Hawaiian Storm mystery featuring FBI Special Agent Vanessa Storm, is now available as an e-book on Amazon. If you act fast, you can still get it at 99 cents from Amazon.com. It’s already at its regular price, $2.99, on other […]

Palm Trees & Snowflakes cover

Palm Trees and Snowflakes is now available for pre-order on Amazon. This second Hawaiian Storm mystery hits Amazon’s shores officially on November 30, but you can order it now at a special price of 99 cents. This Christmas-themed tropical mystery brings back your favourite Hawaiian Storm characters, like FBI Special Agent Vanessa Storm, still in […]

Ghost Star by Roger Eschbacher cover

Ghost Star is a rollicking good space opera for young readers. Anyone from reading age to mid-teens will enjoy it. Plot Nolo Bray, a member of the Ruam race from the planet Tac, is the most elusive smuggler the galaxy. The book opens as his ship, the Ghost Star is finally caught and boarded by […]

An adventuresome holiday

I have had some pretty adventuresome vacations: Banff, where I had my closest encounter with a grizzly bear; whitewater canoeing in Ontario and Quebec; and last year, when we got uncomfortably close to the wine country wildfires. And last month, I encountered a different kind of adventure in Portugal. It’s a wonderful place, and my […]

Book launch: The Search for Starlight by Elyse Salpeter

My author friend Elyse Salpeter has just released the fifth volume in her Kelsey Porter mystery series that combines Buddhist spirituality with vigilante justice. With The Search for Starlight, Elyse Salpeter culminates the journey of a young woman who has come full circle in her quest to find the murderers of her parents. She just needed […]

Launch day—Torn Roots: Hawaiian Storm mystery 1

Torn Roots, the first Hawaiian Storm mystery, is now available on Amazon.  What the critics are saying “TORN ROOTS is wonderfully rich with plot and setting, but it was Mr. Bury’s command of the story’s pacing that impressed me most.” —Eden Baylee, author of Stranger at Sunset “I made the mistake of picking up this book and […]